EXTERMINATION CAMPS
- The Nazis built extermination facilities in a number of the
extermination camps
concentration camps, mostly in Poland, to kill Jews more efficiently.
At these camps, including the infamous Treblinka and Auschwitz, Jews
were the Nazis' main victims.
- Auschwitz alone housed about 100,000 people in 300 prison barracks.
Its gas chambers, built to kill 2,000 people at time, sometimes gassed
12,000 people in one day.
- Upon arrival at Auschwitz, healthy prisoners were selected for slave labor.
Elderly or disabled people, the sick, and mothers and children went
immediately to the gas chambers, after which their bodes were burned
in giant crematoriums.
- The Nazis built extermination facilities in a number of the
concentration camps, mostly in Poland, to kill Jews more efficiently.
At these camps, including the infamous Treblinka and Auschwitz, Jews
were the Nazis' main victims.
- Auschwitz alone housed about 100,000 people in 300 prison barracks.
Its gas chambers, built to kill 2,000 people at time, sometimes gassed
12,000 people in one day.
- Upon arrival at Auschwitz, healthy prisoners were selected for slave labor.
Elderly or disabled people, the sick, and mothers and children went
immediately to the gas chambers, after which their bodes were burned
in giant crematoriums.